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I went down the garden this afternoon to find a hole where I used to have some self seeded wild garlic:
The impact on the wild garlic is mostly what bothers me. If the digger had been more considerate, I wouldn't mind there being a small hole somewhere along the boundary.
I'm not entirely sure what dug underneath. We live in an urban area, so the candidates are limited. Neigbourhood cats or hedgehogs seem unlikely, but we used to have foxes passing though and the neighbour on that side has a dog. What's puzzling me is that I haven't had this problem before in the years we've lived here - if either the foxes or the dog wanted to pass, they could have done so at any time.
In any case, I've blocked the hole by burying a load of bricks there. If that gets moved, I'll put down some postcrete or concrete. What I'm not sure about is whether to try to redirect the foxes, if that's what did it. The best solution for me would be to dig a small hole somewhere more convenient instead of having the buggers digging up more plants I actually want. The issue is that by doing so, there'd also be a route out for the aforementioned neighbourhood dog.
The impact on the wild garlic is mostly what bothers me. If the digger had been more considerate, I wouldn't mind there being a small hole somewhere along the boundary.
I'm not entirely sure what dug underneath. We live in an urban area, so the candidates are limited. Neigbourhood cats or hedgehogs seem unlikely, but we used to have foxes passing though and the neighbour on that side has a dog. What's puzzling me is that I haven't had this problem before in the years we've lived here - if either the foxes or the dog wanted to pass, they could have done so at any time.
In any case, I've blocked the hole by burying a load of bricks there. If that gets moved, I'll put down some postcrete or concrete. What I'm not sure about is whether to try to redirect the foxes, if that's what did it. The best solution for me would be to dig a small hole somewhere more convenient instead of having the buggers digging up more plants I actually want. The issue is that by doing so, there'd also be a route out for the aforementioned neighbourhood dog.
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